Smartphone & web-enabled data logging, from $445 + $0/month ex-GST
Reads soil moisture, temperature, rainfall, soil conductivity and more
No mandatory recurring charges
Works outside cellular network coverage areas
The TainData Tierra
Soil & Environment Data Logger
- 1 SDI-12 Input
- 4 Voltage Inputs
- 4 Tension Block inputs (with Tension-block Upgrade)
- 2 Switch/Pulse inputs
- Runs on rechargeable Lithium-ion Batteries
- 115KB Memory
- 2-Year Hardware Warranty & Support
for SDI-12 soil probes such as Aquacheck, EnviroPro and Sentek
for temperature sensors, volumetric soil water content sensors, humidity sensors, pH sensors, water depth sensors, and more
for Watermark soil tension sensors or Malvic gypsum blocks
for tipping bucket rain gauges, irrigation flow, and more
which last for over 12 months per charge with normal use
which stores hourly readings for over 6 months with average use (less for an SDI-12 probe with many sensors enabled). All retrieved data is stored permanently in the cloud.
How does it work?
Why choose the Tierra?
Reads SDI-12 probes, tension blocks, voltage inputs, pulse inputs and more
A single Tierra unit reads all common soil and environmental probes and sensors: SDI-12 soil probes, tension blocks, temperature sensors, volumetric water content sensors, rain gauges, and more.
Works outside cellular coverage areas
The Tierra's memory stores data for weeks or months. When data is retrieved by the smartphone app, data is stored on the phone. If it's outside cellular range, data is sent to the web when internet access is next available.
Smartphone App Works with Apple & Android phones & tablets
The Tierra is compatible with iPhones (4S and later), iPads (3rd Gen and later) and Android devices with Bluetooth 4.0 support.
Desktop data viewer app runs on any desktop computer or tablet
TainData's Panorama desktop app runs in a web browser, and works on Windows, macOS or Linux computers, and iPad or Android tablets.
Allows access for any number of users
Allow access to interrogate logger and view data to any number of users, whether they be inside your organisation or external consultants.
No mandatory recurring charges
The Starter plan offers 4 weeks' data storage, free of charge. Long-term data storage requires a monthly or annual subscription. Discounts are available for multi-year upfront data subscriptions.
Supported sensors, probes and measurement devices
EnviroPro® Soil Probes (SDI-12)
The EnviroPro continuously monitors volumetric soil moisture, soil temperature and soil salinity at intervals of 10cm, to depths of up to 1.6m.
The EnviroPro's design employs techniques to compensate moisture measurements for variations in salinity, as well as compensating moisture and salinity measurements for temperature variations.
More info: EnviroPro Soil Probes
This product is available from TainData.
AquaCheck Probes (SDI-12)
The AquaCheck sub-surface soil moisture probe offers volumetric soil moisture measurement and soiltemperature measurement.
Probes are a available between 40cm and 120cm, with sensors spaced at either 10cm or 20cm, with a maxiumum of 6 depths per sensor.
More info: AquaCheck Probes
Watermark 200SS Soil Tension Blocks
The Watermark sensor is a solid state electrical resistance sensing device that is used to measure soil water tension, which indicates the force required for plants to extract moisture from the soil.
The Watermark 200SS sensor is most suited to light, sandy soils.
More info: Watermark 200SS Soil Moisture Sensors
This product is available from TainData.
Malvic Gypsum Blocks (Tension Blocks)
Gypsum Blocks have been used for several decades to measure soil water tension, which indicates the force required for plants to extract moisture from the soil.
Gypsum Blocks are most suitable in deficit irrigation, or in heavy, slow-draining soil.
This product is available from TainData.
Temperature Sensors (Voltage)
Temperature sensors can be used to measure air temperature, canopy temperature, soil temperature and water temperature. As the Tierra can read from up to 4 voltage inputs, up to 4 different temperatures can be read by a single Tierra logger.
Operating range is -10°C to +80°C.
This product is available from TainData.
Tipping Bucket Rain Gauges
In a tipping bucket rain gauge, collected rain is funneled into a bucket-like container on a see-saw mechanism. Each time the container fills up, the see-saw 'tips' and sends and electical pulse to the Tierra logger.
The Tierra's pulse inputs can read read signals from a variety of tipping bucket rain gauges, including:
HyQuest Solutions TB4
Spectrum Technologies 3655R
Davis Instruments 7852
These products are available from TainData.
Also...
• Relative Humidity Sensors
• Solar Radiation Sensors
These products are available from TainData.
Model Comparison & Pricing
| Tierra 2 | Tierra 2 + Tension | |
|---|---|---|
| SDI-12 Inputs
for EnviroPro & Aquacheck soil probes |
1 | 1 |
| Voltage Inputs
for Temperature, Humidity, etc |
4 | 4 |
| Pulse Inputs | 2 | 2 |
| Tension Block Inputs | 4 | |
| Smartphone data retrieval | ||
| Upgradeable to Radio Telemetry | ||
| Price with no long-term data storage
Data stored for 4 weeks |
$445 ex-GST | $495 ex-GST |
| Price with monthly data subscription | $445 + $9/month ex-GST | $495 + $9/month ex-GST |
| Price with annual data subscription | $445 + $99/year ex-GST | $495 + $99/year ex-GST |
| Price with 7 years' data bundled | $995 + $0/month ex-GST | $1095 + $0/month ex-GST |
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